Day 47
Slept in and after taking Domino out, I figured I’d do some sight-seeing. I went to Skyline for breakfast and waited at the door for about 5 minutes for them to open. The Skyline was looking right out at the Cincinnati Reds stadium. I really was hoping to see a game there while I was in town but the team was out of town. I pulled out my phone and looked it up and saw that I could do a stadium tour. They had a spot for me on their next one. I finished up my 5-way and headed on over.
Baseball heaven! Baseball’s oldest team. They had a bobblehead display at their hall-of-fame museum that I got to check out while I waited for the tour to start. I am a big collector of sports memorabilia and a livid baseball fan. This was right where I wanted to be. The tour began and it was just one couple and me. It felt like a fancy private tour. We got to go into the press box and down on the field and into the dugout. I still wish I could’ve watched a game with a hot dog while keeping score but this was a good compromise.
After the tour, I walked across the street to the Underground Railroad Museum. I was really excited about this. In Atlanta, we have a lot of history with slavery and civil-rights activists. I know a lot about it as I go to our museums all of the time. It was neat to see it from the perspective of a northern state to where eluding slaves would go in hopes of freedom. A great museum with emotional displays. Definitely worth going to if you’re ever in Cincy.
I got back to the hotel and had a couple of packages waiting for me from a friend back home and also from my mom because I had a few things sent to her house that I needed. I went through my new goodies and organized everything into LT Dan. I had some things to send back home so I packed that into one of the boxes that I had just opened.
I was scheduled to speak at a breakfast for a treatment center in Cincinnati in the morning. More on that in tomorrow’s blog post. I wrote my speech and rehearsed a few times before bed. Tonight was the last night I’d be spending in the city. I wanted to stay longer but there was a marathon that weekend and all of the hotel rates were sky high because of the demand. I needed to keep going anyways…